In my ongoing quest to provide amazing writing tips and information, I present to you a break from my own ideas and an introduction to professional blogger David Peralty. David was kind enough to sit down with me and talk about his problogger success through networking and taking advantage of opportunities. Check it out!

Thanks for taking the time to chat with me! Please introduce yourself to the Writer Seven community and let us know about your ongoing projects.

My name is David Peralty, and I am a soon to be twenty-seven year old Canadian computer geek. I failed one of my

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Welcome to 7 Words to Know Wednesday! Last week’s trend was 7 Words to Know for Efficiency. This week’s trend is…

Words that Help You Achieve Quality

Success (noun) The achievement of one’s aim or goal. For your product or content to be a success, you have to meet the goals of your customers. Success can be defined by a variety of factors for a variety of people. Failure State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. If you do not meet the goals and objectives of your customers, you cannot succeed. Understanding failure is important for garnering success. Accurate (Adjective) In exact or

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From a reader commenting on the illegal alien post:

I used to hear from my history teacher in high school that the word “illegal” isn’t actually a word. I never followed up on that notion, but I suppose from popular usage, “illegal” has become legitimized. Do you have any etymological info on that?

The word illegal with the sense of “not legal or lawful” has been in English since 1626. Similar words existed in Middle English and French as early as the fourteenth century.

The expression illegal immigrant dates from 1939 during the British mandate in Palestine. The term was applied to Jews who entered Palestine without authorization.

The word illegal derives ultimately from Latin: legalis “legal” with the negative prefix in-. The

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The first time I heard the word “nanowrimo” I was 12, and I didn’t realize it was an acronym. My best friend quickly explained that nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month, an event in November in which participants attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in just 30 days.

Sound ridiculous? Well, the point of NanoWrimo is not for you to produce a best selling novel. The point of NanoWrimo is to get yourself to generate 50,000 words of coherent writing. Even if it’s crap!H

See, NanoWrimo is all about the quantity, not the quality, of your work. Here’s an explanation that comes straight from the about page:

Valuing enthusiasm and

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The story you are about to read is not a happy story. It does not have a happy beginning, nor does it have a happy ending. In fact, it is difficult to say that anything happy happens in this story at all.

This story is about a girl, and while I cannot reveal her name, I can tell you that there is more to her than you think. Some love her, some hate her, and some people simply do not know her at all…as is the case with most of us…

There are happier stories to be read. Stories that end happily, and begin happily, and even have a happy middle that does not in any

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